These are the main developments since day 1,439 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Monday, February 1st:

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• Russian drone strikes bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region Caused at least 12 deathsaccording to officials.
• Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal condemned the strike as a “cynical and targeted” attack on energy workers. Their employer, DTEK, said the victims were coming to the end of their shift.
• Another Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed a man and a woman, while Russian attacks on maternity wards and residential areas in Zaporizhia wounded nine people, officials said. Among the injured were two women who were undergoing medical examinations.
• In a post on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to disrupt logistics and connectivity between Ukrainian cities and communities through drone, bomb and missile attacks. He said that Russia used more than 980 attack drones, nearly 1,100 guided air bombs and two missiles against Ukraine.
• As a new wave of severe cold sweeps across much of the country, nearly 700 apartment buildings in Ukraine’s capital Kiev remain without heating due to previous Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said Russian troops took control of the village of Zelene in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and the settlement of Sukhetsk in the Donetsk region, TASS reported. The ministry added that Russian forces attacked transport infrastructure used in the interests of Ukrainian forces.
• Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his SpaceX company is taking steps to prevent Russia from using its technology “without authorization” Internet system star chain The move appeared to be working after Ukrainian officials reported finding Starlink terminals on long-range drones used in Russian attacks.
• Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov said Kiev was developing a system that would only allow authorized Starlink terminals to operate on Ukrainian territory.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Zelensky said Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. officials held a new round of trilateral talks on a plan drafted by Washington to end nearly four years of war. Postponed to February 4th and 5th in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
• Russian Security Council Vice-President Dmitry Medvedev praised US President Donald Trump’s “arrogant” style as “effective” in seeking peace, but added that Moscow had found no sign of the nuclear submarine Trump claimed had moved to the Russian coast.
• In an interview with Reuters and TASS, Medvedev added that Trump “wants to go down in history as a peacemaker, and he is really trying,” which explains “why contacts with Americans have become more productive.”
• Medvedev also said that European powers failed to defeat Russia in Ukraine, but instead caused serious economic damage to themselves.
• Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, with China’s top diplomat saying bilateral ties between the two countries could “make new progress” this year.
• Wang also told Shoigu that China and Russia must work together to safeguard multilateralism in “turbulent times” and “advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world.”
• The United States and Russia’s New START treaty, the world’s last treaty limiting the deployment of nuclear weapons, is set to expire on Thursday, bringing with it restrictions on the two top nuclear powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested extending New START by one year in September, but little has been heard since Trump said last year that an extension “sounded like a good idea.”